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Severe uterine/ovarian pain and heavy bleeding

Hi everyone, this is a long story so I will be brief. 8 weeks ago my breasts started growing, were very tender and sore I had to sleep in a bra, clothes were also tight fitting. 3 weeks ago I started a period although it wasn't like a usual period, not that I have that many but do now have some thesedays whereas I could go 5 years without having a period. The blood was unusally red from the start, it is normally black like old blood initially and usually lasts 3-4 days. However, this time it was bright red and only lasted 1 day. 3 days later I was ironing sitting down for a trip to Spain the next day and I felt a surge like I had wet my pants. I stood up and I was a lot of blood, I bled for a few hours afterwards then it stopped.... no pain at this point. I travelled to Spain the next evening and the following day was carrying some shopping and felt a sharp pain in my left ovary/left side. It is not unusual for me to have left ovarian period pain, but thi8s was different. My partner carried the shopping at that point. 3 hours later I was sunbathing by the pool when i had constipation like pain and felt the urge to defacate. I went to the toilet but nothing materialised and when i put my knees higher than my thighs to assist faecal evacuation I got the most horrendous pain in my uterus and passed a lot of blood from my vagina into the toilet. The pain did not go away. It hurt to sit on the toilet, no way I could sit down on a chair etc, when i tried to lie down twice i vomited twice and when i stood it felt my uterus had dropped down. I was still bleeding but everytime i tried a tampon the pain was worse. After 4 hours of screaming, puffing and crying the spanish doctor was called who called an ambulance and took me to hospital for a scan. The hospital was horrendous, they eventually gave me intravenous tramadol which made no difference whatsoever they were taking ages to do bloods and there was no mention of a scan and the bill was rising so I discharged myself. I was so distressed, they couldnt speak english, they would not let my partner into the room and i was just rocking with the pain sat up as i could not walk around due to the IV, I actually ripped out the IV myself as I could not stand the pain. The pain continued with this intensity for another few hours, about 10 hours in total and the next day I half walked half crawled to a pharmacy and bought codeine and ibuprofen and took them every 3 hours. Gradually over the next 4 days the pain eased although I couldnt walk far, bend or lift anything due to pain in ovaries and uterus. Strangely the breast pain disappeared overnight after this episode. The bleeding was heavy, supersize tampon/pads every 1-2 hours, the bloodclots/flow even pushed out the tampons at times making me scared to leave the apartment i was staying in.
I got home 2 days ago and went to see my GP who said this was normal in PCOS, well not to me its not. He has done a pregnancy test today, will not know results for 10 days. I have not been to work today as the pain has started again although i am not bleeding, but the pain is the start of what happened previously and i am confused and scared.

Anyone any ideas? miscarriage? uterine prolapse? I have never experienced pain or bleeding like this, not being able to lay/sit and hurting like hell to stand. I am terrified this will happen every month. I still cannot walk more than 100 yards, and have to do so very slowly, it hurts to bend, stretch and lift and even to dry my long hair gives me sharp pains in my ovaries.

I have never had anything like this happen. I have had intense pain when a cyst ruptured but there was nothing like you described. I would suggest that you continue to follow up with your MD until you feel like they have provided you with an explaination.
Just because you are no longer experiencing the intense pain does not mean everything is alright...
Please make sure to stay on top of it and best of luck
M

Thank you for your responses. I went back to work today. I work in a hospital and went to the OB/GYN for some advice etc. It seems the most plausible explanation was early miscarriage. I'm shocked yet not surprised if that makes sense. Onwards and upwards I guess....

I had bleeding like that quite a few years ago that lasted a day. I went to the er once it started and by the time I got to the hospital I had bled through the two folded towel I had put under me to protect the seat. I also had big blood clots, but I experienced no pain. All in all the doctor's did not know what caused it.

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